Essential Holiday Gadgets

We love a good gadget and there's no better time to be thinking about them than right now, with summer on the way and a raft of innovative, useful gadgets hitting the shelves. We'll be looking at a number of essential gadgets over the course of the year and to kick us off we've got two here that rightly take their place as our Essential Holiday Gadgets. So if you're planning a holiday and are making a list of things to buy, you might also think about adding these to the list:

Aquapacs

We're never far from a gadget these days and no doubt most of you reading this will have a mobile phone or digital camera - or both. And very useful they are too but there's one thing these gadgets definitely do not like and that's water. Aquapac make a range of totally waterproof, clear, durable bags designed specifically for the precious little objects in our lives. So whether you're off on holiday and near the pool or down at the beach, or day-tripping around England and worried about your new phone getting rained on/dropped in a river/having drinks spilt on it at a barbecue, one of these handy little bags will put your mind at ease - and save you the expense and inconvenience of having to replace it.

Ebook reader

We've all done it - packing for a holiday and filling up those last few inches of space with a spare paperback or two. How many books will you get through in two weeks? Well the days of shifting through the dog-eared pile next to the pool for something decent to read are over thanks to this wonderful invention. An Ebook reader has done for books what MP3 players did for music - made them truly portable on a grand scale. Ebooks can digitally store hundreds of books at a time and they're small and light, making them perfect for reading on the plane, by the pool, on the beach, at home, on the train ... pretty much anywhere. Unlike a laptop computer, they have specially designed screens that don't suffer from sun glare and you can read them just like a printed book, without straining your eyes. Plus, their batteries last much longer - in some cases up to a whole month from one charge.